# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zdenek-jirotka-q168990
# Generated: 2026-08-16T01:11:56.709Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zdenek-jirotka-q168990"
name: "Zdeněk Jirotka"
slug: "zdenek-jirotka-q168990"
description: "Zdeněk Jirotka was a Czechoslovak writer of radio-broadcast plays and author of humorous novels, short stories, and feuilletons. He was born in Ostrava (Silesia), sat for the leaving examination at the secondary industrial school in Hradec Králové in 1933 and then joined the Army where he served until 1940. After the Nazis had annexed Czechoslovakia, Jirotka worked for the Public Works Ministry and in 1942, when his most famous novel Saturnin earned him great success, he became a full-time writer. Among other newspapers and magazines that Jirotka contributed to were: the Lidové noviny (1940-1945), the Svobodné noviny (1945-1951), and the Dikobraz."
tagline: "Czech playwright, humorist, publicist, bookwriter, scriptwriter and writer (1911–2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zden%C4%9Bk_Jirotka_(Mlad%C3%BD_sv%C4%9Bt%2C_1961).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-01-07"
deathDate: "2003-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.94
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.271274666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0423199/"
    handle:    "nm0423199"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%94%D0%BA_%D0%87%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Зденєк Їротка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "زدينيك چيروتكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk_Jirotka"
    title: "Zdeněk Jirotka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk_Jirotka_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "Zdeněk Jirotka (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk_Jirotka"
    title: "Zdeněk Jirotka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk_Jirotka"
    title: "Zdeněk Jirotka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk_Jirotka"
    title: "Zdeněk Jirotka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk_Jirotka_(%C3%ADr%C3%B3)"
    title: "Zdeněk Jirotka (író)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168990"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump